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Lots of things require work, Dwight, and yet people do them. (Like blogging!) I think it would be more accurate to say that many people find that the time & effort required to participate in Twitter don’t provide a payoff to make it worthwhile for them.

Any site like Facebook or Twitter has to provide enough information back to the user, or they will stop using it. If you join either site, but don’t really know many people using them, or are not sure how to find people/topics that you’re interested in; then you will soon quit.

I don’t think the issue in the entry above has much to do with people spending a lot of time with Twitter, then dropping away, as you did. From what I’ve seen with a lot of newbies, they sign up, can’t immediately see any social interaction, then walk away.

This is what I mean when I say, to be useful, Twitter requires work. You have find interesting people, then see who they are following and build your network. This may or may not be possible via friends who convinced you to try Twitter.

As I’ve said before, Twitter is what you make it. Follow people who aren’t saying interesting/useful things, and you won’t find it very interesting or useful. Some people give up too quickly, because they either don’t understand this or don’t have the patience; or they may walk away because they went down the wrong trail, building a network that wasn’t that interesting.

And it’s also very possible that some people just won’t take to it. If you’re in the auto parts business and that’s your life, you probably aren’t going to find a lot of people talkin’ parts. It is not for everyone. Nothing (other than air, water, food, shelter and love) is.

Apple has definitely hired some engineering heavyweights in the chip design field. No speculation here. They’re definitely working on some of their own chip designs.

They’ve had problems for many years when the roadmaps of their chip vendors (Motorola, IBM, ATI, NVidia, Intel) didn’t align well with their own needs.

Another issue is that Apple comes out with a new game changing product and Apple’s vendors then try to sell key components to competitors. This helps competitors who want to copy Apple’s products.

Apple’s hardware priorities are low power consumption along with high performance in both the main processor and the graphics processor. The next version of OS X (Snow Leopard) will also enable better parallel processing to utilize multiple core processors. Current chip suppliers may not be so focused on these priorities concerning themselves instead with products like Intel’s low cost Atom processor for netbooks.

With the iPhone and iPod Touch using the same processor they have enough units to justify a serious chip development effort. They’ll be shooting for a combination of performance and battery life that competitors simply can’t match with off the shelf chips.

I also know that they wanted to bring graphics processor development in-house years ago but gave it up as too big an undertaking. Now it sounds like they’ve hired engineering managers with the knowledge and experience to lead such an effort should they choose to go in that direction.

Have a couple of accounts & the only thing I did was twit to one account from the other a year ago & haven’t been back since. I don’t know how all you Twits out there have time for these “social networking” gimmicks with wives and kids and jobs and all. I run out of time just trying to finish this sentenc…

I know it’s not technically a geek issue, but ABC has joined up with Hulu, which means a more seamless version of their shows to stream on the web. If anyone has not witnessed streaming TV shows, Hulu works well, and attempts like streaming at ABC is hit and mostly miss, and TNT and CWTV are problematic at best.

In a sense, Hulu is replacing YouTube for a video destination site. YouTube was great for a while. But Hulu has accomplished what it set out to do (in picking up Disney/ABC programming) and that is to grab the eyeballs of interested people with cash to spend.